Photo by Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash I haven’t blogged in a while. For two years, I put this blog on private as I’d no longer had the willpower to push out blog posts the way that I did six years ago. I write a little more about this in my blog post Why Do You Do… ? Recently, I have revamped my blog. I have unpublished posts that didn’t reflect who I was then or who I am now, or those that felt too personal to share ‘out there’. I also removed posts I wrote just for the sake of posting content and main taining an audience, even when inauthentic to me. It means more to me that others feel the value and quality of what I share rather than the quantity. I am not sure how often I will post, all I know is when the inspiration and curiosity strike, that’s when it will occur. My intention for this blog is to lead with more spontaneity than usual, structured content, along with transparency, authenticity, and vulnerability to whatever degree feels right. My inte...
It's Saturday Night -
time for more Genealogy Fun!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:
1) We sometimes find we have questions we would love to discuss with our ancestors - the who, what, when, why and how questions that might help with our genealogy research.
2) Which ancestors would you like to talk to? What questions would you ask?
2) Which ancestors would you like to talk to? What questions would you ask?
3) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a post on Facebook.
There are so many ancestors I would love to talk to, but I will only list my top 5 ancestors. 💗
1) My first choice would be my great-grandmother, Clara Loretta Scott Armstead (1904-1998). I would ask her what her biological mother's name is, the reasoning behind why her brothers were placed in an orphanage, and why her ex-husband, Anthony Tony Armstead, was abusive toward her sons and possibly her.
2) My second choice would be my paternal grandfather, Fletcher Pearson (1919-1986). I would ask him what his experience in WWII was like and what he did after the war.
3) My third choice would be my 3rd great-grandmother, Loretta Baker (1854-1900). I would ask her who were her parents, where was she born, and if so, why did she leave her first husband and married another man by the name of George Baker.
4) My fourth choice would be my great-grandfather, Earnest Rogers (1916-1990). I would ask him what is your biological father's name and how was life living in Alabama during Jim Crow.
5) My last choice would be my maternal grandfather, Thomas Bernard Armstead (1943-2013). I would ask him, how would you describe your mother and father, how did your parents meet, what was life like living in Brooklyn during the 1940s-early 1960s.
If only we could go back in time and let them answer our questions-our brick walls would become breakthroughs.
Thanks for reading,
Your last sentence is so true for all of us - if only we could go back in time! It would be fun to really be able to talk to our ancestors.
ReplyDeleteI agree-it would be fun to talk to our ancestors. I probably would not stop if I had the chance.
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